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  1. Virginia Woolf _ To the Lighthouse

    There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.
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  2. E.A. Bucchianeri _ Faust: My Soul Be Damned for

    ... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
    book-quotephilosophicalmanmind

  3. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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  4. Christopher Isherwood _ A Single Man

    For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.
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  5. Patricia Highsmith _ The Glass Cell

    And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guina K. Le Guin _ Rocannon's World

    They can send death at once, but life is slower..."
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  7. Paulo Coelho _ The Alchemist

    Learn to recognize omens, and follow them
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  8. Dan Simmons _ The Rise of Endymion

    {The Void Which Binds} actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.
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  9. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves.
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  10. Chuck Palahniuk _ Invisible Monsters Remix

    The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill
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  11. Yann Martel _ Life of Pi

    The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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  12. E.A. Bucchianeri _ Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

    Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.
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